Lilly Marcou
Lilly Marcou (9 July 1936 – 1 July 2026) was a Romanian-born French historian who specialised in the history of communism.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Lilly Marcou was born in Iași, Romania on 9 July 1936. She graduated in literature from the University of Bucharest. In 1986, she obtained a doctorate in history from the Paris-Sorbonne University.[2]
She pursued her career at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI) at Paris Institute of Political Studies. From 1975 to 1981, she led a research group on the international communist movement. From 1982 to 1988, she taught at the Sciences Po.[2]
From 1993, she devoted her research to the study of Soviet archives from the Stalin era in Moscow.[3]
In April 2007, she was named Knight of the Legion of Honor.[4]
Marcou died on 1 July 2026, at the age of 89.[5]
Works
[edit]- Le Kominform. Le communisme de guerre froide, Paris, Presses de Sciences-Po, 1977.
- L'Internationale après Staline, Paris, Grasset, 1979.
- Staline vu par les hôtes du Kremlin, Paris, Gallimard, 1979.
- Une Enfance stalinienne, Paris, PUF, 1982, 190 p.
- L'URSS vue de gauche (dir.), Paris, PUF, 1984, 200 p
- Les Pieds d'argile, le communisme mondial au présent, 1970-1986, Paris, Ramsay, 1986, 492 p.
- La Guerre froide, l'engrenage, Bruxelles, Éditions Complexe, 1987, 275 p.
- Les Défis de Gorbatchev, Paris, Plon, 1988, 275 p.
- Le Mouvement communiste international depuis 1945, Paris, PUF, 1990, 128 p.
- Ilya Ehrenburg, un homme dans son siècle, Paris, Plon, 1992, 379 p.
- Elsa Triolet, les yeux et la mémoire, Paris, Plon, 1994, 419 p.
- Staline. Vie privée, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1996, 343 p.[6]
- Le Crépuscule du communisme, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 1997, 125 p.
- Des Partis comme les autres ? Les anciens communistes en Europe de l’Est, avec Guy Hermet, Bruxelles, Éditions Complexe, 1998, 165 p.
- Le Roi trahi, Carol II de Roumanie, Paris, Pygmalion, 2002, 345 p.
- Les Héritiers, Pygmalion, 2004.
- Napoléon face aux Juifs, Paris, Pygmalion, 2006, 180 p.
- Napoléon et les femmes, Paris, La Martinière, 2008, 239 p.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Lilly Marcou | Calmann-Lévy". www.calmann-levy.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-12.
- 1 2 "Lilly Marcou - Tous les livres - Librairie Eyrolles". www.eyrolles.com. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
- ↑ Girault, René (1981). "Marcou (Lilly) - L'Internationale après Staline". Revue française de science politique. 31 (1): 267–268.
- ↑ Décret du 6 avril 2007 portant promotion et nomination, retrieved 2023-12-12
- ↑ "Madame Lilly Marcou". Simplifia. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
- ↑ Jean-Paul Piérot (2003). "Le dictateur et le conquérant Entretien. Pour l'historienne Lilly Marcou, il est encore difficile, malgré l'ouverture des archives, de réexaminer sereinement le rôle du dirigeant soviétique". humanite.fr..
- 1936 births
- 2026 deaths
- French women historians
- University of Bucharest alumni
- Academic staff of Sciences Po
- 20th-century French historians
- 21st-century French historians
- French people of Romanian descent
- Stalinism-era scholars and writers
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- French recipients of the Legion of Honour